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Connect for Lemmy has a sync for reddit feel and is working quite well for me as I make the switch from reddit
I think I like connect the best so far but the logo for it changed today and the change is horrible lol I miss the goofy mascot lol. 1/10
Connect has been my favorite Lemmy app as of late. Jerboa is my old reliable one though 😅
I just switched from Jerboa to Connect and have ~~no~~ few regrets so far. Still feels like the wild west out here.
Can't wait for Sync though!
EDIT: I do have at least one regret, no easy way to report comments on Connect, AFAICT. Guess I need to keep exploring my options.
To be fair, most apps other than Jerboa didn't exist a few weeks ago 😅
Seconding this, Connect for Lemmy also feels a lot like RIF.
Same here, besides the pack of animations it's really getting me used to using Lemmy. Till sync for Lemmy comes out, that is. I can't wait
Antennapod is a Free Open Source Software (FOSS) podcast app. The app is well designed with great features. You can also use it for playing audio books locally as well.
Neat! Gonna have to give it a shot, looks polished.
https://wefwef.app/ advertised as mobile-first client for Lemmy
https://lemmy.world/post/367599
Things are moving fast. Let’s see how it turns out to be atleast until we get Apollo/Boost/Thunder etc with multi-platform feature parity.
Here's my personal list of recommended apps for a few things:
- Aegis (Play Store / F-Droid / GitHub) - 2FA FOSS app that's minimal and simple
- Auxio (F-Droid / GitHub) - No-nonsense music player for local files
- ConnectBot (Play Store / F-Droid / GitHub) - Simple SSH client
- K-9 Mail, soon to be Thunderbird (Play Store / F-Droid / GitHub) - No-nonsense e-mail client
- NewPipe (F-Droid / GitHub) - YouTube client for privacy, has no ads, supports background playing, local subscription lists, and ability to download videos
- Techmino (GitHub) - FOSS Tetris clone with no ads and multiple modes, definitely my favourite
- Waistline (F-Droid / GitHub) - Calorie counter app that stores all data locally. Need to add products yourself but have full control.
With all the social media corps going full ham on advertising, I'm going to make the switch from Chrome to Firefox with ad-blocking add-ons. However, I'm at a crossroads since there are many variations ranging from the official Firefox app to Firefox Nightly and even Fennec or Fenix.
Any recommendations?
If you are trying to switch from Chrome, then just use regular Firefox with the ublock extension (and maybe some of the other privacy extension officially supported). If you are a "power user" and want modify/access about:config and other settings then you need Firefox Nightly. The Fennec and Fenix (iirc) are just stripped down Firefox that either only have private mode or additional settings for privacy (that are already present in regular version, but way not be enabled by default). Hope that helps.
Looking for a good Lemmy and/or KBin app.
I'm personally waiting for Sync for Lemmy to come out, but in the meantime, Liftoff for Lemmy and Thunder have been pretty good for me
Connect, liftoff, thunder, jerboa are the best ones at the moment
Connect is working really well for me, but I prefer jerboa. Unfortunately that isn't working right now with lemmy. World being on an older version. Once they go to 18.1, I should be able to use it again.
Wefwef, truly amazing and polished experience!
There are a lot of options for Lemmy, but beware they still need to mature a bit. The two apps I keep using the most are Thunder and Connect for Lemmy. Lots of users swear by Liftoff but I find the aesthetics a bit lacking for me. There's also Lemming which is the most barebones but has a great UI for something that has only had a couple of alpha releases. Most if not all of these are available to download from Github.
Jerboa is decent, still in its early stages though.
Medito is a free meditation app that's developed and run by a dutch non-profit.
I had no idea that it was a Dutch app! It's really great, I've been using it on and off for a year now to great success.
For self hosted music lovers, I would like to introduce you to Tempo, an open source and lightweight music client for Subsonic, designed and built natively for Android.
Musicolet is my favorite local music player because of the ability to switch between queues without losing the position of the last played track. I don't understand how not all music player have the same feature
I've been using Trunks as my go-to Mastodon client for a couple of weeks now and I'm really liking it.
I think Birday is a great app because it's so simple, just reads birthdays from your contacts and notifies you a preset time before.
Does anyone have recommendations for an app that does heart/step/etc health tracking but is FOSS supporting WearOS watches.
Komoot - great bike route planner and gpx recorder.
Mapy.cz - great hiking navigation with trails colors/indications. Mosty Europe I guess.
Fdroid ->Catima - simple loyalty cards / barcodes instead of supermarket apps
Fdroid -> StreetComplete very easy contributing to osmMaps. You know your neighbourhood? Answer questions if that trafic lights have sound indication for blind people or about the type of surface that bike line has.
Moshidon is a fantastic Mastodon Client. Kotatsu is my personal favorite Manga reader on Android. Image Toolbox is a great choice for an open source mobile image editor with a good amount of features.
Just a few of my personal favorites right now.
Any app with mark as read or mark as read on scroll?